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Today's Topics:
1. O/t: Kremlin .. Eyes ?Forever War? With Ukraine and the
West? (Stephen Loosley)
2. Re: O/t: Kremlin .. Eyes ?Forever War? With Ukraine and the
West? (Roger Clarke)
3. HarmonyOS Next .. popular all-Chinese mobile OS (Stephen Loosley)
4. Re: OT: Robodebt: The Definitive Case Study (Tom Worthington)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 19:15:18 +0930
From: Stephen Loosley <[email protected]>
To: "link" <[email protected]>
Subject: [LINK] O/t: Kremlin .. Eyes ?Forever War? With Ukraine and
the West?
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Kremlin Revives Soviet-Style Youth Indoctrination as It Eyes ?Forever War? With
Ukraine and the West
By Moscow Times Reporter Sep. 13, 2024
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/09/13/kremlin-revives-soviet-style-youth-indoctrination-as-it-eyes-forever-war-with-ukraine-and-the-west-a86367
[Photograph caption: Russian schoolchildren with the Russian flag. Yaroslav
Chingaev / Moskva News Agency]
The Kremlin is working to systematically instill ?patriotic? values in children
and teenagers through a Soviet-style propaganda campaign as it looks toward
preparing the next generation for a life shaped by conflict with Ukraine and
the West.
?We need warriors, gunmen, stormtroopers ? those who, at the president?s first
call, will rush to the military enlistment offices, not Verkhny Lars,? a
Russian government official said, referring to the Russian-Georgian border
crossing where tens of thousands of Russians fled the country during the fall
2022 ?partial? mobilization for the war.
?And there's nothing to be embarrassed about,? he said.
The official, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity due to concerns for
personal safety.
?Our Fatherland is in danger, threatened by the West and the United States. We
no longer need hipsters, rappers, or lovers of Western culture ? only Navalny
supporters come from them,? he said.
Winning the hearts and minds of young people has been one of the Kremlin?s main
domestic policy priorities since 2000, when Putin first became president.
Putin?s early presidency saw the creation of state-funded youth movements
championed by Kremlin ideologists such as admitted Western culture lover
Vladislav Surkov and Vyacheslav Volodin.
Despite these efforts, the mass opposition protests of 2011-2012, followed by
the widespread youth support for Putin?s foe Alexei Navalny up until his death
this February, proved that the regime had failed to win over the younger
generation.
But the full-scale invasion of Ukraine two and a half years ago renewed the
government?s focus on youth indoctrination.
[Photograph caption: ? boy with the Russian flag. Yaroslav Chingaev / Moskva
News Agency]
On Thursday, a draft law titled ?On Systematizing the Sphere of Youth Policy?
was introduced in the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament. The law
seeks to instill ?a willingness in young people to fulfill their constitutional
duty to defend the Fatherland.?
In May 2022, just three months after the war began, Putin launched the
?Movement of the Firsts,? modeled on the Soviet Pioneers. Schools reinstated
weekly flag-raising ceremonies and anthem-singing in the fall of 2022, evoking
Soviet-era rituals.
According to a source close to the Kremlin, the presidential administration is
dusting off old Soviet practices and studying them closely, particularly those
from the Stalinist era and afterward.
?There is no point in reinventing the wheel when we have the example of the
late 1930s and the years of the Great Patriotic [War] in front of us. We are
taking the practices of our fathers and grandfathers and preparing the younger
generation,? the source said.
The Kremlin is now transforming Rosmolodyozh, the Federal Agency for Youth
Affairs, into a vast new ideological body tasked with systematizing and
unifying all youth ideological education initiatives, from kindergarten to
higher education.
According to Russian media reports, the agency will receive a significant
funding boost in the coming year, along with new leadership.
Although Russia?s modern Constitution prohibits the establishment of a state
ideology, Rosmolodyozh will effectively function as an arm of state propaganda.
While Putin has so far resisted his associates? calls to formally reinstate
state ideology in the Constitution, he has repeatedly declared ?patriotism? as
the only acceptable ideology for modern Russia.
?There is an obvious problem: All those who said ?we can repeat [our World War
II victory]?, who swore love for the Motherland in peacetime, have now
disappeared somewhere. That is, 'patriotism' has turned out to be somehow
non-functional and fake,? said exiled political analyst Abbas Gallyamov, a
former speechwriter for Putin.
?The authorities have made it their task to correct this situation, to turn
'patriotism' from an abstraction into something more material ? convertible
into concrete units of cannon fodder. Basically, the authorities are
introducing a 'patriotic KPI',? he said.
--
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 22:09:45 +1000
From: Roger Clarke <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LINK] O/t: Kremlin .. Eyes ?Forever War? With Ukraine
and the West?
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
On 15/9/2024 19:45, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Kremlin Revives Soviet-Style Youth Indoctrination as It Eyes ?Forever War?
> With Ukraine and the West
Yep, straight out of the playbook:
"Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not
been at war ...".
___________________
> By Moscow Times Reporter Sep. 13, 2024
> https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/09/13/kremlin-revives-soviet-style-youth-indoctrination-as-it-eyes-forever-war-with-ukraine-and-the-west-a86367
>
>
> [Photograph caption: Russian schoolchildren with the Russian flag. Yaroslav
> Chingaev / Moskva News Agency]
>
>
> The Kremlin is working to systematically instill ?patriotic? values in
> children and teenagers through a Soviet-style propaganda campaign as it looks
> toward preparing the next generation for a life shaped by conflict with
> Ukraine and the West.
>
> ?We need warriors, gunmen, stormtroopers ? those who, at the president?s
> first call, will rush to the military enlistment offices, not Verkhny Lars,?
> a Russian government official said, referring to the Russian-Georgian border
> crossing where tens of thousands of Russians fled the country during the fall
> 2022 ?partial? mobilization for the war.
>
> ?And there's nothing to be embarrassed about,? he said.
>
> The official, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity due to concerns
> for personal safety.
>
> ?Our Fatherland is in danger, threatened by the West and the United States.
> We no longer need hipsters, rappers, or lovers of Western culture ? only
> Navalny supporters come from them,? he said.
>
> Winning the hearts and minds of young people has been one of the Kremlin?s
> main domestic policy priorities since 2000, when Putin first became
> president. Putin?s early presidency saw the creation of state-funded youth
> movements championed by Kremlin ideologists such as admitted Western culture
> lover Vladislav Surkov and Vyacheslav Volodin.
>
> Despite these efforts, the mass opposition protests of 2011-2012, followed by
> the widespread youth support for Putin?s foe Alexei Navalny up until his
> death this February, proved that the regime had failed to win over the
> younger generation.
>
> But the full-scale invasion of Ukraine two and a half years ago renewed the
> government?s focus on youth indoctrination.
>
>
> [Photograph caption: ? boy with the Russian flag. Yaroslav Chingaev / Moskva
> News Agency]
>
>
> On Thursday, a draft law titled ?On Systematizing the Sphere of Youth Policy?
> was introduced in the State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament. The law
> seeks to instill ?a willingness in young people to fulfill their
> constitutional duty to defend the Fatherland.?
>
> In May 2022, just three months after the war began, Putin launched the
> ?Movement of the Firsts,? modeled on the Soviet Pioneers. Schools reinstated
> weekly flag-raising ceremonies and anthem-singing in the fall of 2022,
> evoking Soviet-era rituals.
>
> According to a source close to the Kremlin, the presidential administration
> is dusting off old Soviet practices and studying them closely, particularly
> those from the Stalinist era and afterward.
>
> ?There is no point in reinventing the wheel when we have the example of the
> late 1930s and the years of the Great Patriotic [War] in front of us. We are
> taking the practices of our fathers and grandfathers and preparing the
> younger generation,? the source said.
>
>
> The Kremlin is now transforming Rosmolodyozh, the Federal Agency for Youth
> Affairs, into a vast new ideological body tasked with systematizing and
> unifying all youth ideological education initiatives, from kindergarten to
> higher education.
>
> According to Russian media reports, the agency will receive a significant
> funding boost in the coming year, along with new leadership.
>
> Although Russia?s modern Constitution prohibits the establishment of a state
> ideology, Rosmolodyozh will effectively function as an arm of state
> propaganda.
>
> While Putin has so far resisted his associates? calls to formally reinstate
> state ideology in the Constitution, he has repeatedly declared ?patriotism?
> as the only acceptable ideology for modern Russia.
>
>
> ?There is an obvious problem: All those who said ?we can repeat [our World
> War II victory]?, who swore love for the Motherland in peacetime, have now
> disappeared somewhere. That is, 'patriotism' has turned out to be somehow
> non-functional and fake,? said exiled political analyst Abbas Gallyamov, a
> former speechwriter for Putin.
>
> ?The authorities have made it their task to correct this situation, to turn
> 'patriotism' from an abstraction into something more material ? convertible
> into concrete units of cannon fodder. Basically, the authorities are
> introducing a 'patriotic KPI',? he said.
>
> --
>
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Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:44:40 +0930
From: Stephen Loosley <[email protected]>
To: "link" <[email protected]>
Subject: [LINK] HarmonyOS Next .. popular all-Chinese mobile OS
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
* Huawei?s home-grown mobile OS without Android support set to launch this month
HarmonyOS Next is ?entirely independently developed and autonomous?, executive
says at trade fair
{Photo caption: HarmonyOS Next has been dubbed the ?pure blood? version of
Harmony, as it does not support Android-based applications. Photo: Shutterstock}
By Xinmei Shen Published: 6:00pm, 15 Sep 2024?
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3278602/huaweis-home-grown-mobile-os-without-android-support-set-launch-month
Huawei Technologies will soon launch the latest iteration of its home-grown
mobile operating system HarmonyOS Next, an executive reportedly said, boosting
the telecommunications equipment giant?s bid to take on Google?s Android and
Apple?s iOS in the domestic market.
Huawei will officially launch HarmonyOS Next at the end of this month, Chen
Xinxin, general manager of HarmonyOS industry solutions, said on Saturday at
the China International Fair For Trade In Service in Beijing, according to
local media reports.
HarmonyOS Next has been dubbed the ?pure blood? version of Harmony, as unlike
earlier versions of the operating system it will no longer support
Android-based applications.
The mobile platform?s latest iteration is ?entirely independently developed and
autonomous?, Chen reportedly said on Saturday.
Huawei did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.
Huawei first launched HarmonyOS as an Android alternative in China in August
2019, three months after the US government added Huawei to a trade blacklist
that barred the company from purchasing US-originated technologies without
Washington?s approval.
[Photo caption: Huawei unveils its tri-fold smartphone, the Mate XT, in
Shenzhen, south China?s Guangdong Province, on September 10, 2024. Photo:
Xinhua}
HarmonyOS now runs on more than 900 million devices with 2.54 million
developers, Chen reportedly said on Saturday. Huawei also plans to invest more
than 7 billion yuan (US$987 million) to ?incentivise? HarmonyOS native
applications and technical services and to build out the HarmonyOS ecosystem,
according to the executive.
The company first debuted HarmonyOS Next in January this year for developers.
The platform, which Huawei?s consumer business group chairman Richard Yu
Chengdong called ?China-originated, independent and controllable?, will be
officially launched for commercial use on Huawei?s next flagship 5G smartphone
series, the Mate 70, in the fourth quarter this year, Yu said in June.
More Chinese developers have got on board with HarmonyOS Next amid Huawei?s
push to take on iOS and Android in China.
E-commerce giant JD.com, for instance, earlier this week said that its mobile
application that supports the HarmonyOS Next operating system will be
officially launched in September, according to an official post the company
published on WeChat on Wednesday.
HarmonyOS recently unseated Apple?s iOS as China?s second-largest mobile
operating system.
The system accounted for 17 per cent of China?s smartphone market in the first
three months of the year, doubling its presence from the same period last year,
according to a Counterpoint Research report in June.
--
Xinmei Shen joined the Post in 2017 and is a technology reporter. She covers
content, entertainment, social media and internet culture.
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 07:39:39 +1000
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LINK] OT: Robodebt: The Definitive Case Study
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
On 14/9/24 08:29, Roger Clarke wrote:
> A case study on the Robodebt project, which has been in development
> since 2018, was published earlier this week. ...
> https://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/4681/1481
Very timely and on-topic for Link, with Australian governments thinking
up new ways to use tech. Prime examples of what might go wrong are the
proposals for a federal digital ID and banning young people from social
media.
Of course Robodebt was not very high tech and didn't go wrong, as it did
what it aimed to do: victimize a group of people to gain votes and the
outcome was foreseen. The 1978 episode of the dystopian TV show "1990"
titled "Ordeal by Small Brown Envelope" depicted people driven to
suicide by a government program of "Authorised Systematic Harassment":
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0501331/
--
Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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